the sinking a little pressure mounts on cypress to produce a bailout plan ahead of monday's e.u. deadline as reports claim europe's patience for the debt stricken country is running up. thousands in damascus attend the funeral of a prominent sunni preacher killed in a suicide attack on a packed mosque on thursday that also claimed the lives of forty eight others. and boosting political and energy ties to china's new president a first overseas a trip to seize the signing of multi-billion dollar deals with russia because beijing seeks a partnership to counterbalance you if you will influence. its

one pm here in the russian capital you live with us on our chief international news analysis and reports. and allows ditch attempt to rescue sine prison from bankruptcy the president announced us yet as his hearing to be heading to brussels to meet officials there is as his country struggles to meet the conditions for a ten billion euro bailout the scene has pos number of bills covering key elements of a rescue plan but that wasn't enough to satisfy officials for more we're now joined live by our teaser tess us who is in the cyprus the capital. you know what is the what's the situation right now while what the time is taking what's the super government doing are they going to be able to deliver. for everybody here knows that time is indeed ticking they've had emergency sessions related to the right to pass a bill that would form a part of

a package of the vote that they could present to the. like that and get an approval for an order to get that ten billion euro bailout right now as i'm sure many of us all still in progress and they've approved part of the package what they did approve our capital falls now that would give powers to banks to impose restrictions on the amount of money that the accessed by account holders as well as the movement control the movement of money in and out of cyprus of this is to prevent a bank run that they're very afraid of once banks reopen banks right now are closed until next week until all this gets sorted out so when banks do reopen they just don't want people to suddenly pull out all their money so that's what capital consoles are for the other one that they had also agreed upon is a solidarity funds essentially pulling together assets coming from different sources i've seen reports say that the church will be contributing also maybe perhaps a state pension funds so they're trying to pull together as much money as they can to for about six billion euros that they could again present to the troika hoping

to satisfy them to get that ten billion euro bailout another one is also restructuring of the bank laiki back to cyprus popular back is really in trouble and they want to see this restructured into the concept be a good bank bad bank meaning they separate the bad parts of the back of the good parts of the bank hoping that the good part can still continue on functioning and giving credit to its account holders and the government will be able to see just how bad the accounts are again all these are just part of the package something else that they haven't actually decided upon and made an announcement on is that back deposit levy if they are indeed going to continue to put to approve that idea of taxing deposit holders possibly uninsured deposits above one hundred thousand euros now if you remember the very reason why panic started in this country was when a bank deposit levy was imposed on all deposits holders including small account holders and that's what really angered the cypriots said they had gone out to the streets and the idea was scrapped now this new bank deposit levy could possibly be

announced but we have to wait for. an official announcement on that at one point because we have to know whether the troika will approve it i will be in brussels on sunday just so this all seems so involved you have the capital because you have the how much patience do the disapproves have towards the government at this point. all i can tell you it's really been an emotional overload for them for the past week or roller coaster and i think also information overload they've been moved to the television screens trying to wonder stad all everything that i have just explained explained to you and try to grasp how that would impact them because for the questions that they want answered is will i have a job when everything is settled will i have access to my money why be able to do to go to the a.t.m. and get my bank account i guess it comes from my bank account and i've heard some of this but they say. the banking crisis has affected us to know we can get the money we've earned to work in cyprus we're not jobless but we can get cash out of

a.t.m. machines. we've invested our money into view condominium cyprus but the kind of song what are the grounds for that is not one of the most. human being we have to get out of the euro but. how they would pay us and our kids. we don't accept it would be no development with this and nobody would come to try to do. it right there was still reporting there from the cause and some of those reactions from cypriots themselves out there not knowing what's going to happen in the next coming days now as the clock ticks to was the deadline for new calls yields visuals are becoming increasingly wary of support governments reluctance to impose a ban deposit levy. was reportedly outraged by their inability to come up with a plan b. and as artie's news editor i will quote explains michael's harshest stance on the issues may derive from her desire to boost popularity back home. this starts at

a russia e.u. summit last year when the euro krotz told russia that cyprus would be their problem to solve cyprus had been racked by the greek economic collapse the russians didn't take kindly to that said it's a euro zone problem and it's not like russians are the only ones availing of time cypriot tax loopholes however russia did stop two and a half billion to help trying to keep the island afloat a change in the cypriot government last year delayed any chance of a resolution most notably russia e.u. summit last december but it crucially brought the timing of any deal into the german election cycle and this is why merkel is playing hardball merkel's in search of votes she's under pressure at home and explains the euro group's decision to back a raid on privately held posits insiders germany's taking a very very hard line on this issue merkel's uncompromising stance backed euro group's decision to raid privately held super deposits weekend. and sent the

cypriots to moscow looking for help. the russians look at the cyprus approach and say no we're not going to get involved for two reasons one it's a euro zone problem but secondly merkel is going to drive this into the ground she's taking a hard line on the cypriot issue and nobody is going to touch cyprus or until she has finished the political process or may gain the political capital necessary from this situation to let cyprus off the hook it's going to be a very very long weekend in the homes of crossings and berlin. the escalating crisis cyprus is sending shivers all across the eurozone and the next crisis to merge could be another small economy struggling with a heavily indebted bank sector slovenia the i.m.f. says that baghdad is increasing among some state run banks let's take a look at this now the bad a dead at three of the country's leading banks was that fifteen point six percent of the total loans now in twenty eleven figures started to rise to twenty point

five percent last yeah they did quasar on seven billion euros all that twenty percent of that g.d.p. . g.d.p. now emerging markets. slovenia may be seeking of the bailout in the second part of this year the cypriot crisis will have broad based impacts across the eurozone and across the wider region but one country that stands out in particular. has been standing out as a potential candidate for seeking international bailout for much of the past year and now that we have had the crisis in cyprus and the form of the proposed bailout and a potential target of deposits it really creates increases fears in slovenia of what an international bailout might entail. definitely want to want to bear in mind going forward as long as it's not shut from international markets and i don't think it is they will be fine and they won't have to seek international bailout the

condition which would trigger a slovenia having to seek international bailout is if the current political turmoil in slovenia carries on and effectively keeps living in the shut out of international markets under that scenario you might have to seek international bailout and i think the stress points will become visible towards the second half of the year when slovenia starts running out of cash. thousands of syrians are paying their last respects to prominence sunni cleric killed was suicide bomber in a damascus mosque on thursday shaikh mohammad saeed ramadan all good he was also a prominent supporter of the embattled president bashar syrian journalists of dollars in he says any muslim who goes against the rebels is now a target. clergymen or let's say muslim schoolers who are not with the opposition were targeted or were killed we can remember a few names for example like mr ahmed saadat on that those were killed because of having an opinion different done position but everybody believed that what happened

is unjustified and cannot be explained we have extremist groups systemic splinter group jihad these waters of fighting against the government and the mr before he was killed last friday in his last speech he said that we should fight with with the syrian army and you should not fight with with this opposition groups so this raises a lot of controversy and controversy and discussion in the syrian society and this lead into this killing and we have mr. the permanent assume the. spoilage who lives in he said beforehand that all people who are with the vision and even muslims should be killed if they are supporting the government says the syrian government so this is the context of this killing everybody was angry everybody said that he should not be killed he is one of the most famous. leader in syria everybody said that he did not make

a crime he did not kill anyone he just delivered his his opinion if you are making an embrace looking for freedom he has the freedom to say whatever he wants that's that's what he what everybody says that even so someone in his age he's eighty four years old he's not fighting should be should not be killed at all and this is a crime even people a position. people support for the government agreed that this should not be done that way at least. china is a stepping up his energy security with the help of russia moscow has agreed to increase oil supplies so it's eastern neighbor but three times the current level along with other multibillion dollar deals that she powers also want to geo political change with the new chinese president saying ties with the rochelle will help bring about a third world order. been following for his selfish will of the seas trip. some of the major points that the chinese leader has also made of course was about the cooperation between russia and china among other things that the two countries

also agree on is the fact that it is about time to leave the old stereotypes behind he said that we're living in the twenty first century and therefore the cold war era is gone and over with and therefore this theory types and thinking along those lines also has to go and you also mentioned that russia and china are their cooperation will provide for a clearer world order you also mentioned of course the need to not just to move away from syria types but also to move towards the multiple world and the multiple areas the of the world is also one of the founding principles of bricks of course brics essentially was a trade and economic organization but it is now moving increasingly towards becoming a major geo political player and that is going to be one of the main subjects of discussions during an upcoming brick summit in south africa and yet despite of course there are many agreements on the political level russia and china still have several things that they need to work on and among those things is the gas supplies

deal from russia to china which has been in the works for ten years and it does look like during this visit russia and china have made some headway towards finding a solution but the details of the deal are yet to be figured out and it is expected that those details will come out until the end of the year but of course the chinese leader said that russia and china nevertheless are each other's biggest partner and are this the seeing eye to eye on a lot of issues and cooperation is something that the two countries are going not just to continue but we'll all start he said that his trip there is a symbolic significance by happening in march because the leader hopes that he will see some very good fruits or in forth from the seeds that he has so on during this visit. william and dolly a.j. a political analyst and the author of mitt's allies an oil wars are says the visit also meant it seems send a signal to washington that beijing won't be a puppet is it sends a signal to the united states to washington who has been very.

bristolian and increasingly militarily hostile to chime in the last few years with the asia pivot so-called what russia has to bring to the table is essential for china and that is energy security over by plane land routes gas and oil primarily and at a time when the china's african the oil sources are being increasingly put under pressure from africa in so dion and libya and elsewhere for russia it also is an extremely important orientation to what to president putin calls the new eurasian the direction of the russian economy if russia and china are put it odds against each other and then the game is over and you have the where there's no contender to sole superpower in germany from washington i think that's a very unhealthy state of the world both for the for china for russia for the rest of the world but also for the united states that too much power concentrated in too

few hands is always a danger to world peace. on the way a black algae behind bogs u.s. officials continue to don't play the scale of a mass congress strike at guantanamo bay the pentagon now wants to expand the toys facility. but also with the u.k. walking a troubled exhibit recession tightrope authorities want to a fortune on translations will immigrants the details of that just ahead. we are facing a lot of problems you know. because no one thought to drink no good school. minutes when you feel for.

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lawyers of paul hunger striking detainees at guantanamo bay claim they've been denied access to their clients the situation is said to be life threatening as more than one hundred captors have been reportedly been starving themselves for month and a half u.s. officials have downplayed the allegations and the scale of the crisis and all president obama has still not kept his promise to close the detention center the military is now asking for money to upgrade the facility as artie's gammage again reports. the spokesperson for guantanamo robert do read and responded to our tease inquiry here's what he writes as of friday the twenty second of march twenty thirty and we have twenty six hunger strike is with a receiving end to all feeds this is an increase from thursday which was twenty five and eight we have two detainees in the detainee hospital for rehydration an observation or mental feet last time robert durango back to us was last week also on friday saying there were fourteen detainees who refused all food although

defense attorneys had been saying there were many more on their overdue end says there are twenty six we cannot independently verify these numbers or any of this so we have to rely on the response that we get from the officials and the detainees lawyers and here's the latest from the attorneys apparently there are now denied direct access to their clients in one time an attorney say they had a visit scheduled for early next week with one of the clients who lost thirty pounds that's almost fourteen telegrams since the strike began at the beginning of february that visit was approved by the military but the lawyers say they've just been informed by the authorities that they cannot visit the client because the military flight scheduled for next week was canceled also most recently the navy decided to discontinue commercial flights to the camp so attorneys are really struggling to find out the true extent of what's happening in guantanamo now and not just the attorneys but we journalists those well i spoke with a lawyer who was denied access to a client in guantanamo this week she told me there is a sense among defense attorneys that they are being deliberately ignored by the

authorities so as to think there is nothing that we can do we have sent e-mails to the department to burns to the commander. asking them. to talk to us about the detainees condition and we have heard no response so there is a sense of helplessness among the attorneys as well a few months ago the state department shut down the office that was working to close the prison and on top of aig the u.s. south and. man and that's the command that oversees guantanamo has just requested forty nine million dollars to build a new prison building at guantanamo bay for quote unquote special detainees on top of other renovations it says are necessary since washington decided to keep it open indefinitely the military said the potential taxpayer bill for upgrading the deteriorating facilities would be almost one hundred ninety six million dollars and all of this effectively means that the detainees are stuck in this legal limbo indefinitely but as m.p.

george galloway says i giving guantanamo a costly facelift will not change the human rights violations the prison camp where you are held without charge without drywall indefinitely where your lawyer has no right to see you where you have no rights of any kind can never be made more comfortable even if you put thick carpet big armchairs like we have in the british parliament in it it will never be comfortable it remains an outrage but the significance of the investment is this they wouldn't be spending tens of millions of new dollars on guantanamo if they didn't intend to keep it as a legal black hole where our so-called illegal combatants are incarcerated people by the way seized and kidnapped from around the world and taken drugged and manacled in many cases this is the stuff of fiction but unfortunately it's fact in

two thousand and thirteen in obama's america. egypt has been shaken by fierce clashes between opponents and supporters of the ruling muslim brotherhood outside the group's offices across the country some of the most intense fighting to place in the capital cairo leaving scores of people injured police fired tear gas to repel writers outside the brotherhood's heiko to say this latest wave of anger at the group erupted last week when its members attacked journalists an opposition activist during a peaceful protest outside the building was met how our response person for egypt's opposition national salvation front says the government is on the brink of completely losing control of the country in the midst of what the brotherhood government and morsi government is with standing its position of giving a deaf ear to any claims of reform and to any claims of of opposition to the very harmful policies in egypt. the record of

wall street is a failure of managing the problems of the government failure of managing the problems of egypt it's a total failure of this government to the failure of this regime and it just has been stalling they're losing control over parts of egypt a lot of cities a lot of the ordinary city egypt are now rising up against the muslim brotherhood and against the government did not recognize the government as a lawful government that would. oversee and manage the day to day of government work. in other news making headlines around the world to the lebanese president has formally accepted the resignation of his prime minister najib mikati along with his whole government down over a dispute with hizbollah country has been locked in political stalemate ever since a shia group blocked the creation of a supervisory body to oversee the next parliamentary election its fear that the move could further destabilize lebanon which is finding it increasingly difficult to prevent the syrian civil war from spilling over the border. because of.

mass protests have shaken the capital of bahrain where thousands of demonstrators are demanding the release of prominent human rights activists noble ridge herb this is the latest outbreak of popular dissent against the ruling more likely running for political reform in the oil rich kingdom the protest movement has seen up to eighty people killed and scores arrested since it erupted in february twenty eleven . political correctness may be leaving british taxpayers out of pocket in an attempt to accommodate non english speaking immigrants one london council half a million pounds on translations that will never be read or she's probably going to win to find out how locals feel about their hard earned money being lost in translation. for those who live in the u.k. and don't speak english the british government's been understanding for the past several years that's because local councils translates information about the

services into up to as many as seventy different languages so whether it's your pitch and feeding instructions and or do or a new thread about how to lose weight in a choice of punjab. it's available and courtesy of the u.k. taxpayer and this north london bar a hiring day the local town hall wasted almost wholesome million pounds translating documents that no one ended up reading leaflets included a school's garden french somalians her cash as well as a gay lesbian bisexual and transgender services directory and friends they meet reflects what they're doing and before they commit mass amounts of money terrible waste that is right when i see people homeless on the streets. we need a mistress across however people from different backgrounds with english is a second language they've got responsibility to learn english as well the minister

for local government eric pickles says that the u.k.'s immigrants need to improve their english while local governments could do with brushing up on them mom according to pickles putting a stop to the exorbitant translations of public information could help to save money for persons on a me as well as help to improve the english of immigrants and help to integrate them into british society we need to start getting immigrants to work for the u.k. as opposed to the u.k. spending a lot of money on immigrants we should try and help them but not the extent of wasting your council should have a policy of we shouldn't buy stuff from media stuff especially when budgets already been cut translations across all public bodies cost the u.k. government a hundred forty million pounds a year the result something the local government minister told me. sensible situation where no one speaks english as their main language and can many british house vote to keep your local council laughed at in bengali arabic with the money

you might think about signing up for some english lessons otherwise it could all end up in greek t.v. polyploid can see. we take an in-depth look at the everyday life rebel fighters in the oil rich and i doubt time to stay with us. jorge rios an argentinian student at seventeen other similar students from foreign countries all paid a private company between three thousand and four thousand dollars so that they get to take part in a u.s. state department work study program he was promised forty hours of work per week at

a common fast food restaurant with a decent salary but the reality he claims was quite different he was actually only given around four hours of work per week what was expected to be on call twenty four seven like a surge or i guess in case of some burger emergency he says he was forced to live in accommodations that were provided by the restaurant real six plane that he had to sleep in a child size bunk bed in a basement with seven other people in filthy conditions and for this service he had to pay the restaurant three hundred dollars a month overall real swallowed up paying the burger joints to work for them what a way to not make a living though this story sounds funny on the surface many foreigners in work and study and work in travel programs do experience exploitation upon arrival in the usa i've even personally met some of them so i know but more than that in a time when. of americans are struggling to put food on the kitchen table why are companies searching for thousands of exploitable foreigners to work for two dollars an hour cheaper it is corporate greed and their absolute disrespect for americans

that allows this to happen just pay the extra two dollars and have americans work for you to cheap corporate pigs but that's just my opinion. so.

for the past two years the battle has raged at the mouth of the niger river pitting local militants against government forces and multinational oil companies. when i first arrived here i had just a basic understanding of the nature of the conflict. the jury is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the united states just a large sex power of oil on the planet but in the niger delta region that produces hundreds of millions of dollars in oil and gas each year the average person lives on less than one dollar per day there are no there schools no good roads no good hospitals every year over three hundred oil spills contaminate the region and constant flaring of precious natural gas pollutes the ecosystem. well companies and corrupt politician.